Powder River Basin Resource Council
Crews prep coal at the Jim Bridger Plant, where Rocky Mountain Power — a division of PacifiCorp — is analyzing the potential for carbon capture technology. (Angus M. Thuermer, Jr./WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
By pushing the deadline to 2038, Wyoming ratepayers would continue to pay potentially millions of dollars annually for technical analysis to comply with the mandate.
A panel of lawmakers has advanced a draft bill to give power plant operators eight more years to comply with...
Rocky Mountain Power President and CEO Gary Hoogeveen goes over notes with lobbyist Rick Kaysen during a Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions committee hearing in Cheyenne Sept. 20, 2023. (Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
The Legislature’s Corporations Committee is set to consider seven draft bills that test whether a utility’s power generation and grid investments truly benefit Wyoming ratepayers.
A state legislative panel has revised its efforts to protect ratepayers from rising electric utility...
FROM WYOFILE:
The Corporations Committee will consider five draft bills and a resolution in response to Rocky Mountain Power’s proposed 29.2% rate increase. One would create a moratorium on yet-to-be permitted industrial wind and solar facilities in the state
A state legislative committee is...
BUFFALO — When it comes to plugging oil and gas wells in the Powder River Basin, what comes to mind first is often heavy machinery, loads of concrete and taxpayer money being funneled straight into the ground.
But for the team at the Bureau of Land Management Field Office in Buffalo, the trick to...
CASPER — A panel of judges sided with Wyoming and the state’s largest electric utility in a battle over haze pollution last week finding that the Environmental Protection Agency erred and overstepped its authority when it rejected the emissions plan for a Gillette power plant.
The decision...
Rule would incentivize plugging, assist with reclamation efforts
BUFFALO — For decades, oil and gas boom and bust has been a predictable cycle in Johnson County and across Wyoming, with high prices encouraging a rush of drilling before a shift in the market leads to bankrupt companies, lost jobs...
An oil and gas drilling rig in Wyoming BLM’s High Desert District. (Wyoming BLM/FlickrCC)
FROM WYOFILE:
Federal minimum bonds began to stagnate in 1951. In a win for environmental groups, the Biden administration wants to hike some and do away with another.
The Bureau of Land Management is moving to modernize federal bonding requirements meant to ensure the cleanup of abandoned oil...
Wyoming will receive around $7 million of that revenue
CASPER — The Bureau of Land Management’s first oil and gas lease sale in over a year netted roughly $14.7 million in Wyoming — about $1.8 million more than last year’s sale. Wyoming will receive 48% — roughly $7 million — of that revenue.
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Fossil fuel advocates, conservationists both critical of EPA plan
CASPER — Wyoming leaders swear – almost across the board – that carbon capture is destined to be a vital part of electricity generation. Just not yet.
The Biden administration’s proposed emissions constraints for power plants...
The principal operator at the Moneta Divide gas- and oilfield is on the cusp of failing to receive a permit by a deadline it said was necessary for the company “to be successful.”
Aethon Energy needs EPA permission to pump polluted water from the oilfield through the Marlin Well into the...
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